FULTON COUNTY – The Grace Lutheran Church community in Johnstown was back together for its Easter brunch Sunday morning for the first time since 2019. There wasn’t sunrise service beforehand — like three years ago — but they gathered for worship just after the meal, all together again.It warmed church secretary and deacon Bonnie Olendorf’s heart, “like you wouldn’t believe,” to be back together after two consecutive Easter seasons greatly impacted by the novel coronavirus pandemic.Christian and Jewish communities were both just weeks from one of their most important holidays — Easter and Passover, respectively — when the spread of…

NORTHVILLE – The smell inside the store is what Brant Robinson remembers from his first visits to Allen & Palmer as a high schooler.He’s too familiar with it after 20 years to notice as much anymore but he said, “it’s got a unique smell, like [an] old feeling.”Allen & Palmer, the business, and its current home at 112 North Main St. in Northville bring an Americana essence to the village’s downtown. Civil War veterans Edwin Allen of Vermont and Andrew Palmer of Northville started a hardware business on North Main Street in 1870. And 112 North Main was built in…